There hasn’t been one Batman or one Superman book in what, like 60 years. If I don’t like Grant Morrison’s Batman, it would be in DCs best interest, to give me another Batman book. Now, in terms of doing multiple mini-series, I might agree with you. Only the serious hobbyists are getting Mad Monk (My guess) and they probably have a budget. If they don’t get that, they’ll probably just be getting something else, and odds are good that it will be one of your books anyway.

So yeah, not just one book per character (a, no offense, purely fanboy notion) but no need to pile on a dozen at once.

Great data set however!

(I’m confused as to why my link to this page hasn’t shown up as a trackback - am I supposed to do something manually?)

Otherwise, the Law of Diminishing Returns with reboots hit with Zero Hour, and seem to be more about creator ego, probably on DiDido’s part (c’mon, I refuse to believe that there were people clamouring for a frelling CREEPER reboot!)

DC needs to stop flooding the market with so many books. One book for each team and character. That’s it. That includes Superman and Batman. No “prestige format” miniseries. Save the miniseries and one-shot specials for characters that does warrant ongoing series (read: anyone that sells below 20,000). No, don’t even give them miniseries - just occasional one-shots to placate their few fans.

DC should axe every monthly title that sells below 20,000. Period.

As each Vertigo and WildStorm title is cancelled, they should not be replaced. Just let those lines die out and focus on the DCU.

My guess is, when the bloodbath is over and the readers have settled, each of the remaining titles will see increases in readership.

For example, fans might not have wanted to buy 3.5 titles to follow Superman, but they would buy 1. The same with Batman. Readers that were following, say, “Testament” or “Firestorm: The Nuclear Man” would move to one of the higher-selling titles.

I say JasonStorm (firestorm) is gone within 6 months. C’mon only one ongoing DCU monthly is lower in sales (warlord, and that is on the cancelled list). DiDio should just say that he made a mistake POing Ronnie Raymond’s fan base and end the madness.

Seriously, a friend of mine left a copy of Firestorm on his dashboard, went into a gas station, when he left, his window was smashed and 10 copies of Firestorm were on his dash.

I also strongly believe that 52 is cannibalizing other titles. Everybody’s all rah-rah, what a great success 52 is, but if it ends up cancelling half the publisher’s other books (exaggerating here), is it still so great that it sells 100k? People have a limited amount of money, and if they feel they must be reading 52, they’re going to have to be dropping some other titles. This may play a significant part in the heavy drops almost DC-wide in the latter half of the year.

So… Anyone want to guess which “revisions” will be culled in the next 3 to 5 years?

My guess is we’ll lose the ‘Red Hood’ nonsense and there will be an extensive rework of Supergirl.

It’ll be at least another five years before they’re in a position to get away with another massive reboot. At this point, they need to cut their losses and focus on nurturing a handful of quality titles with creative teams that will stick around for at least a year; maybe fill the mid-list gap with mini-series and anthology titles.

Of course, considering the upcoming 3D issue of Action Comics, that’s not at all likely.

Marc-Oliver Frisch writes “Usually, DC Comics releases around 70 new comic books in a given month, not counting reprints, magazines and titles published through its Johnny DC imprint. In November 2006, the number rose to 88, due to a slew of late-ship…

If I remember correctly, Allan Heinberg never committed to be on the title for more than 6 issues from the start. I found these comments from NYCC where he stated that, and I thought there was a confirmation that he’d only be the writer for the first arc, but I can’t find any reference for it now. Jodi Picoult was announced as the new writer fairly early, too (July 6, according to this article).

I also can’t help but wonder if the weak link in the WW chain was implicitly identified when it was announced that Picoult’s artist would be Drew Johnson in addition to the Dodsons.